Motorists face more congestion misery with a week's closure of a major junction between Leamington and Warwick.

Resurfacing at the Warwick New Road and Princes Drive roundabout, near the entrance to Warwickshire College, will mean lengthy queues and buses being diverted.

The work is likely to start on April 22, though the date has still to be confirmed.

The 76 Leamington to Warwick and Hatton bus service will use Warwick Place and Rugby Road instead of going through the busy junction.

School buses heading for Trinity RC School?s Guy?s Cliffe Avenue site and Warwickshire College?s Warwick New Road campus will also be hit, as will other school buses using Myton Road.

Dennis Young, transport operations publicity and marketing manager for Warwickshire County Council, said: ?This road closure will be particularly difficult to deal with for school transport and the 76 bus services.

?The re-routing will cause problems and inconvenience, but fortunately the essential road works will be completed in one week.?

The problems should end with the reopening of High Street, in Leamington?s Old Town. Its on-going closure led to queues which gridlocked the town. It is still creating queues in rush hours.

Emergency changes were needed to bus timetables to cope and some buses are using Church Street and Dormer Place to avoid the bottleneck.

Across town, Lillington Road remains closed southbound. The Severn Trent work has overrun its six-month slot and should have been completed this month.

Radford Road was closed off temporarily in the autumn by gas company workers.

But they had to abandon the scheme and fill in the holes, after it led to queues through Radford Semele to the Fosse Way.